The navigation of the website and content became hard to read and utilize. Size and navigation needed to be usable with the touch of a thumb. Website design had to change. In , RWD was first developed for Audi. If you answered no to any of these questions, then you need to look at adding RWD to your website. Below is an example of RWD in action, notice how the design elements responds to the screen size.
And, the biggie — RWD is Google recommended. Websites that are responsive get higher rankings from Google. According to Statista, mobile internet usage accounts for If a site is cluttered and hard to navigate, those potential customers will move on. Now, with the use of max-width , this media query will apply only to browser or screen widths with a maximum width of pixels or narrower. This means that even if a browser or other viewing area is minimized to something smaller, the media query would still apply to the size of the actual device.
For the iPad specifically, there is also a media query property called orientation. The value can be either landscape horizontal orientation or portrait vertical orientation. Unfortunately, this property works only on the iPad. When determining the orientation for the iPhone and other devices, the use of max-device-width and min-device-width should do the trick.
There are also many media queries that make sense when combined. For example, the min-width and max-width media queries are combined all the time to set a style specific to a certain range. The above code in this media query applies only to screen and browser widths between and pixels. A good use of this technique is to show certain content or entire sidebars in a layout depending on how much horizontal space is available.
Some designers would also prefer to link to a separate style sheet for certain media queries, which is perfectly fine if the organizational benefits outweigh the efficiency lost. For devices that do not switch orientation or for screens whose browser width cannot be changed manually, using a separate style sheet should be fine.
You might want, for example, to place media queries all in one style sheet as above for devices like the iPad. Because such a device can switch from portrait to landscape in an instant, if these two media queries were placed in separate style sheets, the website would have to call each style sheet file every time the user switched orientations.
Placing a media query for both the horizontal and vertical orientations of the iPad in the same style sheet file would be far more efficient.
Another example is a flexible design meant for a standard computer screen with a resizable browser. If the browser can be manually resized, placing all variable media queries in one style sheet would be best. Nevertheless, organization can be key, and a designer may wish to define media queries in a standard HTML link tag:.
In addition, below is a sample jQuery snippet that detects browser width and changes the style sheet accordingly — if one prefers a more hands-on approach:. Remember that media queries are not an absolute answer, but rather are fantastic options for responsive Web design when it comes to pure CSS-based solutions. With the addition of JavaScript, we can accomodate far more variations. It is possible to shrink things proportionally and rearrange elements as necessary to make everything fit reasonably well as a screen gets smaller.
We have best practices for mobile environments: simpler navigation, more focused content, lists or rows instead of multiple columns. It should also be about the user being able to pick and choose content.
Fortunately, CSS has been allowing us to show and hide content with ease for years! Either declare display: none for the HTML block element that needs to be hidden in a specific style sheet or detect the browser width and do it through JavaScript.
In addition to hiding content on smaller screens, we can also hide content in our default style sheet for bigger screens that should be available only in mobile versions or on smaller devices. For example, as we hide major pieces of content, we could replace them with navigation to that content, or with a different navigation structure altogether. For smaller devices, there is no need to keep the mark-up on the page — it just takes up resources and might even cause unnecessary scrolling or break the layout.
In our default style sheet below, we have hidden the links to the sidebar content. Because our screen is large enough, we can display this content on page load. Now, we hide the two sidebars below and show the links to these pieces of content. As an alternative, the links could call to JavaScript to just cancel out the display: none when clicked, and the sidebars could be realigned in the CSS to float below the content or in another reasonable way.
With the ability to easily show and hide content, rearrange layout elements and automatically resize images, form elements and more, a design can be transformed to fit a huge variety of screen sizes and device types. As the screen gets smaller, rearrange elements to fit mobile guidelines; for example, use a script or alternate style sheet to increase white space or to replace image navigation sources on mobile devices for better usability icons would be more beneficial on smaller screens.
Touchscreens are becoming increasingly popular. Right now touchscreens are mainly on smaller devices, but many laptops and desktops on the market also have touchscreen capability.
For example, the HP Touchsmart tm2t is a basic touchscreen laptop with traditional keyboard and mouse that can transform into a tablet. Touchscreens obviously come with different design guidelines than purely cursor-based interaction, and the two have different capabilities as well. Touchscreens have no capability to display CSS hovers because there is no cursor; once the user touches the screen, they click.
Many of the design suggestions in it are best for touchscreens, but they would not necessarily impair cursor-based usability either. For example, sub-navigation on the right side of the page would be more user-friendly for touchscreen users, because most people are right-handed; they would therefore not bump or brush the navigation accidentally when holding the device in their left hand.
This would make no difference to cursor users, so we might as well follow the touchscreen design guideline in this instance. Many more guidelines of this kind can be drawn from touchscreen-based usability. Below we have a few examples of responsive Web design in practice today.
For many of these websites, there is more variation in structure and style than is shown in the pairs of screenshots provided. Many have several solutions for a variety of browsers, and some even adjust elements dynamically in size without the need for specific browser dimensions. Visit each of these, and adjust your browser size or change devices to see them in action.
Art Equals Work is a simple yet great example of responsive Web design. The first screenshot below is the view from a standard computer screen dimension. By: Satish Balakrishnan. Dictionary Dictionary Term of the Day. Machine Intelligence. Techopedia Terms. Connect with us. The storefront maintains the structure of the Aurora starter store, with added visual emphasis on the underlying fluid grid. For example, increased spacing within the user interface around tap-friendly areas.
Simplified, more open grid designs and enlarged functional user interface elements help in separating content on any screen size or device type. All page functions are available without the use of hidden or hard-to-find page areas, such as hover states. That is, all interactions and functions are accessed on each visible page area. Hover states are used as a supplement or decorative visual representation, instead of being used for accessing site functions.
The catalog browsing pages in the Aurora starter store are responsive by design so that they can be accessed across multiple channels and platforms. For example, on desktop, tablet, or mobile devices. They demonstrate best practices in starter store development with WebSphere Commerce , and can act as a base for implementing responsive storefronts for various platforms. A single store archive SAR file covers every device storefront, instead of separately deploying multiple SAR files for desktop, tablet, and mobile stores.
That is, the Aurora. The single SAR file results in less complexity, and reduced development and test times when compared to developing discrete, device-specific sites. Responsive starter stores feature a dynamic and engaging home page, featuring targeted marketing content, and easy to use catalog browsing. Store pages and user interface elements are all designed to be interacted with on any device.
For example, all interaction controls provide a minimum affordance of 40 x 40 CSS pixels, resulting in more tap-friendly areas in the storefront. Search-based navigation with WebSphere Commerce Search helps customers quickly find what they are looking for. Search term associations, search rules, and landing pages deliver targeted content with a rich user experience.
Location-based services enable customers to find store locations closest to their current location, regardless of device. The Commerce Composer tool lets business users create pages and build layouts for the store directly in the Management Center, without involving IT users.
A rich, retail-centric RWD page templates are provided, which is accessible, localized, and touch-friendly by default. The rich, retail-centric RWD page templates result in a unique, end-to-end workflow for designing, assembling, and testing RWD pages. For more information, see Commerce Composer tool. The responsive site flows show all the store pages that are responsive in the storefront.
The site flow topics show screen captures at each range breakpoint, and describe how the wireframe slots are populated by default. To understand which store pages are responsive, review the site flow diagrams: Site flows overview. For more information about specific device stack levels, see Verify hardware, software, and operating system requirements. Customer Support. Samples Aurora starter store The Aurora starter store showcases the latest in storefront features, and models best practices in store development, demonstrating a wide scope of retail scenarios.
Planning Creating a custom implementation of a WebSphere Commerce store requires a significant amount of planning. Installing Review the following sections for information about installing the WebSphere Commerce product, associated maintenance, and WebSphere Commerce enhancements. Deploying The topics in this section describe how to publish stores to either a test or production environment, and how to deploy customized code.
Operating Integrating Topics in the Integrating category highlight the tasks that are commonly performed for using WebSphere Commerce in combination with other products. Administering Tutorials WebSphere Commerce provides many tutorials to help you customize and understand your WebSphere Commerce instance and stores. Site level features Using site level features, you can customize the look and feel of your storefront. Category level features Category level pages in the Aurora starter store are designed to assist customers in narrowing the product selection to find the preferred item.
Product level features Product level features in the Aurora starter store are designed to provide details about a specific product in your store. Aurora as a B2B direct starter store You can publish the Aurora starter store as a B2B direct store and take advantage of features that are offered by the Aurora starter store plus extra B2B capabilities. Publishing the Aurora starter store The Aurora starter store can be used only as a storefront asset store in the Extended Sites business model.
Aurora starter store functions For the Aurora starter store, you can select certain functions to include in your store and disable the ones that you do not need. Accessibility The Aurora starter store follows the IBM accessibility guidelines to implement accessibility features.
Search features WebSphere Commerce comes with a powerful and fully integrated search function. Page range breakpoints in the Aurora starter store Responsive Web Design RWD pages dynamically resize and show different content on different devices that access the store.
Responsive and device-specific store pages Responsive store pages and store pages are device-specific by default. Creating responsive layout templates You can create responsive layout templates so that store pages and elements are optimized for web browsers on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.
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